Friday, April 22, 2005

Happy Earth Day! Here is what some Canadian authors are doing to make the publishing world more environmentally friendly. I hope we can follow suit in the US. I am going to try to ask for recycled paper for my next book; I know Julia Butterfly Hill successfully worked that into her contract. Then again, her book was about saving trees, so that made perfect sense. We'll see if I can pull it off...

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I am the author of Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write (HarperSanFrancisco), Dictionary Poems (Pudding House Publications), and the novels The Book of Dead Birds (HarperCollins), which won Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize for Fiction in Support of a Literature of Social Change, Self Storage (Ballantine)and Delta Girls (Ballantine), along with my first novel for young readers, My Life with the Lincolns (Henry Holt). You can visit my website at www.gaylebrandeis.com or email me at gaylebrandeis at gmail.com. I am on the national staff of CODEPINK: Women for Peace and am a founding member of the Women Creating Peace Collective. I live in Riverside, CA, where I am currently serving a two year term as Inlandia Literary Laureate, and am mom to two adult kids and a toddler.